Stella Creasy interview: ‘We’re in danger of being all sound and fury, not action’

Stella Creasy says that she does not want to waste energy worrying about the prospect of deselection. “It’s not about me. It’s about the change I can make”Times photographer Richard Pohle

The idiosyncratic backbench Labour MP Stella Creasy, not so long ago tipped as a future leader, sits in the least plush of parliament’s canteens and wonders aloud at the prospects facing her party in the next 12 months. “It would,” she says, “be a shame, a terrible shame, if Labour — when we are at that point where the public want to hear what we have to say — collapsed in on itself.”

She is talking, not so elliptically, about the party’s left-wing faction Momentum. One of its founders, Jon Lansman, this week landed a seat on Labour’s national executive, where he will be flanked by two other newly elected leftwingers. She does not, she says when I check, think that collapse is likely, but…

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